SUPREME COURT.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18777, 27 October 1932, Page 6

SUPREME COURT.

AUCKLAND SESSION. PRISONERS FOUND GUILTY. AUCKLAND, Thursday. In the, Supreme Court, James Harold O’Brien, aged 86, electrician, was charged with breaking and entering the premises of the Farmers’ Trading Company at Pukekohe and stealing goods to the value of £36; with breaking and entering the, shop of R. and W. Hellaby, Limited, Takapuna, and stealing 4s 6d; and with breaking into ttie Auckland Meat Company’s shop at Takapuna with Intent to commit a crime. There were alternative charges of theft and of receiving. The Crown Prosecutor said O’Rrien had been In company with McDevelt, who had pleaded guilty to breaking into the Farmers’ Trading Company’s premises at Pukekohe, and be had been found with some of the stolen property. Accused was found guilty. Sentence was postponed. A pica of guilty was entered by Darcy Robert McDevelt on three charges of shop-breaking at Pukekohe and at Takapuna. lie was remanded for sentence. A verdict of guilty was re,turned by the jury In the case in which Frederick Morrison, of Surfdale, Waiheko Island, retired draper, was charged with indecent assault. His Honour remanded prisoner for sentence.